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Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.
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Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.
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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
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It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
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If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
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Man's character is the product of his premises.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.
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Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
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The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
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Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
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Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.
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I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
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A good novel is an indivisible sum every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
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She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
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